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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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